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Wm. Hartshorne's Journal of Journey to Detroit 1793

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every sense, has been made pleasant beyond what could have been foreseen, or reasonably expected, - for this great favour, thanksgiving and praises are due to the Great Author of every good --The kind attention which, unrecom-mended, we have received from Strangers, I hope, will ever be kept in grateful re-membrance, and I cannot but conclude, the obligation is greatly enhanced by the persuasion, that it proceeded not from sinester motives, but was simply the effusion of noble and generous Minds. 23d. This morning Col. England called at our Quarters, and kindly offered to lend us his Barge to go down to go down the River, or accommodate us in any other way that might be more agreeable, but, as the Dunmore would be ready to Sail on the morning of the 25th, he would re-commend it to us to wait untill that time and go down in her - we